THE WEEK

Pinochet’s coup in Chile 50 years on

It is 50 years since General Pinochet seized power in Chile, ushering in more than 16 years of military dictatorship. The Week takes a look at the events of the coup and Pinochet's long-lasting legacy ...
Digital Journal

Twenty-five years on, Pinochet’s legacy still haunts Chile

Twenty-five years after Chile's return to democracy, glorifying Augusto Pinochet has finally become taboo, but the country is still fighting to erase the social and political legacy of his ...
Mail & Guardian

Pablo Neruda’s body exhumed over Pinochet regime murder claims

The remains of the Nobel prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda are to be removed from his grave in Chile as part of an investigation into his death nearly 40 years ago. A team of forensic specialists will ...
Digital Journal

50 years later, wounds of Pinochet regime are still raw

Patricia Herrera visits the basement of the Chilean presidential palace where she was tortured 50 years ago – Copyright AFP GABRIEL BOUYS In the basement of the ...
Reuters

Chile's government to expropriate land tied to Pinochet-era torture

Government says land owners will be compensated Plans for memorial at the site Resident says they were unaware of dictatorship's activities VILLA BAVIERA, July 23 (Reuters) - Chile plans to ...
Yahoo

The Pinochet-Era Debt that the United States Still Hasn’t Settled

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every diaspora has its martyrs. For exiles of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet like my family and me, Orlando Letelier and Ronni ...
CounterPunch

Brief for Murder: Pinochet’s Apologists Five Decades On

During the Cold War, assassinations most foul were entertained as necessary measures to advance the set cause. In Latin America, military regimes were keenly sponsored as reliably brutal antidotes to ...
WLRN

Chile elects most right-wing leader since Pinochet – in line with domestic tendency to punish incumbents

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Andra B. Chastain is an Associate Professor of History at ...
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The photographer who risked death to capture Chile under Pinochet

“Dare to look” is the challenge extended to visitors at a new exhibition of pictures by self-taught documentary photographer Paz Errázuriz, who made it her life’s work to chart the day-to-day ...
Variety

Felipe Carmona Tackles Chile’s Brutal Past in ‘Prison in the Andes’: ‘There’s Still No Closure’

Making main competition at the 49 th Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival in Spain, “Prison in the Andes” (“Penal Cordillera”) trains a spotlight on the scandalous imprisonment of five high-ranking ...
The New York Times

Augusto Pinochet

Philippe Sands, one of the world’s pre-eminent human rights attorneys, grew up in the shadow of bleak times. He worries that history is taking an unfortunate detour. By Michael Steinberger Chile’s new ...